Re: Iconv library - differences between Ruby 1.8.2 and 1.8.4?

Hi,

At Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:17:43 +0900,
Dave Burt wrote in [ruby-core:06890]:
> >> Now, the question: what are the changes in the iconv library between in Ruby
> >> 1.8.2 and Ruby 1.8.4-preview1? In particular, I'm wondering if there are any
> >> incompatibilities between the more recent version of the library and the 
> >> older
> >> version of Ruby?
> >
> > 2 changes.
> >
> > * added Iconv::InvalidEncoding which is raised if requested
> >  encodings were invalid.
> >
> > * charset_alias.rb now parses config.charset file directly,
> >  instead of reading the result sh executed it.
> 
> Thanks. That probably means no incompatible changes.

And one more change after preview1.

* added Iconv::BrokenLibrary, which is raised if error occured
  but errno was not set by iconv library.

> That all makes sense. However there's still a short-term need for the iconv pack 
> for One-Click users, until Curt builds iconv into his next release, 1.8.4, 
> hopefully this month.

It would just get terminated on failures.  BTW, where is the
iconv pack?

> So it seems to me that there's no reason not to use the super-versioned (1.8.4) 
> iconv binary for that purpose; it's probably more compatible due to the 
> replacement of the Errno by the Exception.

Anyhow, it is impossible to iconv.so using msvcr71.dll to
access errno in msvcrt.dll.

-- 
Nobu Nakada